Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

Horses slaughtered in America today go not to feed the poor and the hungry but to satisfy the esoteric palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Japan. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Horse slaughter for meat export is just plain wrong.

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New York Times New York Horse Slaughter Horses 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Whereas those arguments maintain that grain-eating animals should not be slaughtered, this argument is at least consistent with the position that they should be: grain-eating animals, it might be maintained by a new moral vegetarian, should be slaughtered to prevent them from eating more grain and producing new grain-eating offspring.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Ship-to-table: A spice-laced medieval feast from the Grandes Chroniques de France of Charles V. Because of their great expense, spices in the Middle Ages were often reserved for feasts celebrating harvests, slaughters, and holy days as the old year waned, particularly around Christmas.

Sparrows 138

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